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In the blazing heat of August, let’s look at the color orange: by Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Red Canna, 1924, oil on canvas, 29 by 18 inches (73.7 by 45.7 cm), photo: Sotheby’s. #art #womenartists #womanartist A quote from the artist: “A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower… still, in a way, nobody really sees a flower, really, it is so small….So I said to myself, I’ll paint what I see, but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it, even busy New Yorkers [will] take time to see what I see of flowers.”

"Lady with a Bowl of Violets," Lilla Cabot Perry, c. 1910. Lydia Cabot (1848-1933) was born into a Boston society family, and in her youth spent time with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott, both family friends. Her family were passionate abolitionists during the Civil War and worked to protect runaway slaves. After the war, she married linguist and academic Thomas Sergeant Perry, and then began her artistic training at the age of 36. She became a protegee of Claude Monet and friend of Camille Pissarro, and established herself as an American Impressionist. Although she never had the fame other Impressionists had, she formulated her own version of it and helped stir up the staid Boston art community. Several years' residence in Japan, when her husband was teaching at a university there, also influenced her. She started going by her nickname, Lilla. Here we have an unknown young woman, sitting serenely in a rich setting. We have part of a Japanese print and the bowl of violets present but carefully cropped off, a very Japanese choice. It's a lovely, serene picture, typical of her work. From the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. #Art #LillaCabotPerry #Impressionism #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #Herstory #AmericanArt

"Still Life with Clay Jug, Peonies, and Oranges," Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1906. Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) had a tragically brief life but is now recognized as a very important Expressionist painter. She was born into an intellectual family and had a lot of encouragement in her artistic pursuits. She was painting a lot of still lifes at this period of her life, but would soon branch into an almost revolutionary act of painting some nude self-portraits, something unheard of. A postpartum embolism cut her life short at 31, but after she died she became the first woman artist to have an entire museum dedicated to her work. But today we have one of her still lifes, a pleasant if not revolutionary arrangement of colors, mostly yellow and orange against a gray background, with splashes of pink from the peonies. This is from a period when she was abandoning what she had been taught and developing her own style. Happy Flower Friday! #Art #PaulaModersohnBecker #WomenArtists #Expressionism #StillLife

#introduction Greetings. Rejoining this server with a new account some years after being locked out of my first Mastodon one, circa 2018. Introducing myself by way of a bunch of hashtags of interest, as one does. My profile image is a 1940 painting by Dorothea Tanning, "Deirdre" (of the Sorrows). #surrealism #magicalrealism #painting #womenartists #feminism #kindness #dsa #socialism #wildlife #nature #newengland #forest #music #film #hermitcraft #knitting #cats #museums #crafts #whimsy #AuDHD